Love it or hate it, Facebook Messenger introduced a concept that has caught on with messaging apps: floating "chat heads." These little bubbles float on top of whatever you're doing so you can quickly ...

A low-end Android purchase landed me at the XDA forums in 2011, trying to get the most out of it with the help of custom ROMs. After helping the community as a Recognized Contributor and a Forum ...

Chat Heads let users read their messages on the Facebook app without leaving the Newsfeed or whatever else they were looking at, pulling up each individual message with a little bubble with the sender ...

Facebook introduced the concept of floating circles for its Messenger app on Android and it was one of the earliest divisive features of the social network. That UI has persisted and has, in fact, ...

Facebook’s Chat Heads first debuted back in April, 2013 as a central UI element in the new Facebook for Android, the Facebook app on iOS, and the laughably ill-received ‘Facebook phone,’ the HTC First ...

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Facebook added its new Chat Heads feature to its iOS application last month, and now the social network is prompting users of the app to begin using the feature. Facebook added its new Chat Heads ...

Facebook announced at its Mobile@Scale event in October that it would open-source a spring dynamics animation library for Android, Rebound, which allows developers to animate user interface elements ...

"Chat Heads" is a common feature on both iOS and Android, with Facebook Messenger being the most popular implementation. Chat Heads are floating "bubbles" onscreen that when tapped open up into widget ...